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Date:      Sat, 08 Jan 2011 19:05:21 +0300
From:      "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro@ipfw.ru>
To:        Ferruccio Zamuner <nonsolosoft@diff.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPv6 with FreeBSD 8.1
Message-ID:  <4D288B41.7090204@ipfw.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4D286242.30500@diff.org>
References:  <4D286242.30500@diff.org>

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Ferruccio Zamuner wrote:
> Ciao,
> 
> I was trying to configure my host with IPv6.
> 
> I've verified:
> 
> 1)
> options         INET6                   # IPv6 communications protocols
> exists in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/MYKERNEL, and it is.
> 
> 2) in /etc/rc.conf:
> ipv6_enable="YES"
> 
> to be enabled, and it is.
> 
> But:
>> ping6 -c4 ::1
> ping6: ai_family not supported


"ai_family not supported" is EAI_FAMILY error returned by
getaddrinfo(3). Did you recompile world after adding INET6 option?

> 
> even if ifconfig output:
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>         options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>         inet6 fe80::1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> 
> I'm a IPv6 newbie, but I've not understood from what I've read until now
> what I've missed or where/what I did wrong configuring IPv6 on FreeBSD 8.1.
> 
> 
> Can you please help me with links, hints or explains to fix it and get
> it running?
> 
> Here there is also sysctl output filtered by inet6.
> 
>> sysctl -A | grep inet6
> net.inet6.ip6.forwarding: 0
> net.inet6.ip6.redirect: 1
> net.inet6.ip6.hlim: 64
> net.inet6.ip6.stats: Format:S,ip6stat Length:3312
> Dump:0x00000000000000000000000000000000...
> net.inet6.ip6.maxfragpackets: 6400
> net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv: 0
> net.inet6.ip6.keepfaith: 0
> net.inet6.ip6.log_interval: 5
> net.inet6.ip6.hdrnestlimit: 15
> net.inet6.ip6.dad_count: 1
> net.inet6.ip6.auto_flowlabel: 1
> net.inet6.ip6.defmcasthlim: 1
> net.inet6.ip6.gifhlim: 30
> net.inet6.ip6.kame_version: FreeBSD
> net.inet6.ip6.use_deprecated: 1
> net.inet6.ip6.rr_prune: 5
> net.inet6.ip6.v6only: 1
> net.inet6.ip6.rtexpire: 3600
> net.inet6.ip6.rtminexpire: 10
> net.inet6.ip6.rtmaxcache: 128
> net.inet6.ip6.use_tempaddr: 0
> net.inet6.ip6.temppltime: 86400
> net.inet6.ip6.tempvltime: 604800
> net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal: 1
> net.inet6.ip6.rip6stats: Format:S,rip6stat Length:56
> Dump:0x00000000000000000000000000000000...
> net.inet6.ip6.prefer_tempaddr: 0
> net.inet6.ip6.use_defaultzone: 0
> net.inet6.ip6.maxfrags: 6400
> net.inet6.ip6.mcast_pmtu: 0
> net.inet6.ip6.mcast.loop: 1
> net.inet6.ip6.mcast.maxsocksrc: 128
> net.inet6.ip6.mcast.maxgrpsrc: 512
> net.inet6.ip6.fw.deny_unknown_exthdrs: 1
> net.inet6.ip6.fw.enable: 1
> net.inet6.ipsec6.ipsecstats: Format:S,ipsecstat Length:12504
> Dump:0x00000000000000000000000000000000...
> net.inet6.ipsec6.def_policy: 1
> net.inet6.ipsec6.esp_trans_deflev: 1
> net.inet6.ipsec6.esp_net_deflev: 1
> net.inet6.ipsec6.ah_trans_deflev: 1
> net.inet6.ipsec6.ah_net_deflev: 1
> net.inet6.ipsec6.ecn: 0
> net.inet6.ipsec6.debug: 0
> net.inet6.ipsec6.filtertunnel: 0
> net.inet6.icmp6.stats: Format:S,icmp6stat Length:4328
> Dump:0x00000000000000000000000000000000...
> net.inet6.icmp6.rediraccept: 1
> net.inet6.icmp6.redirtimeout: 600
> net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_prune: 1
> net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_delay: 5
> net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_umaxtries: 3
> net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_mmaxtries: 3
> net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_useloopback: 1
> net.inet6.icmp6.nodeinfo: 3
> net.inet6.icmp6.errppslimit: 100
> net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_maxnudhint: 0
> net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_debug: 0
> net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_prlist: Format:N Length:128
> Dump:0x1c1c000000000000fe80000000000000...
> net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_maxqueuelen: 1
> net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_onlink_ns_rfc4861: 0
> net.inet6.mld.use_allow: 1
> net.inet6.mld.v1enable: 1
> net.inet6.mld.gsrdelay: 10
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance,           \ferz
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